Last week, three butterflies emerged from chrysalis stage in the kitchen aquarium. The statistics for their survival to butterflydom aren’t very good. We learned at the botanical garden for every 400 eggs, ten become butterflies. The various stages of their lives provide food for many other outdoor insects, birds, etc. I try to give a few more a fighting chance to spread their wings and fly. Ā



I hope given the opportunity, you will fly, too. š
Patti I just find the most interesting things about you! Wishing those butterflies a happy flight in your yard!
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I’m not only a birdbrain, after all, Pix! š
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Well I certainly will know who to go to with questions about butterflies and I can’t thank you enough for the heads up on the Great American BackYard Bird Count. CH really enjoyed doing that! Me too of course but it was kinda his baby.
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I’m so glad you and your hubby enjoyed the bird count, Pix. I hope I can help if you have butterfly questions, I’m certainly not an expert.
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I just love the butterfly pictures! I had no idea the differences between male and female butterflies.
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Thanks, Janna. That’s something I learned this year, too.
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Very nice!
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Thanks, Naomi.
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How wonderful! They are beautiful and I hope they flutter over this way š
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My husband was observing when one flew away. He lost sight of it two houses down, TBM. Maybe it’s on the way to you. š
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Thanks for the news, Patti. I didn’t know these things about the butterfly. Love the first one, probably ’cause blue is my favorite color.
Blessings ~ Maxi
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That is a pretty blue on this one, Maxi. Blessings.
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What a blessing you are to these three. Your heart is so big.
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Georgette, I get the biggest thrill when I walk into the kitchen one morning and find one ready to go, or getting ready. They typically emerge in the early morning.
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Butterflies are the alcoholics of the insect world. They get drunk off rotten fermented fruit and love it.
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I’m keeping a few of them off the street, Carl. š
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I didn’t know the color pattern determines male or female! Thanks for enlightening me today. So glad to see your babies wings soar!
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They do feel like my babies, Susan. š
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Hi Patti, So lovely, a butterfly aquarium.
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A little patch of nature right in the kitchen, Ellen!
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Very cool, Patti! What photogenic creatures!
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Thanks, Robert. They are much easier to photograph when they haven’t flown yet. š
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that’s wonderful! thanks for sharing them with us!
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You’re welcome, Theresa. They bring so much joy, I want to share it.
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How beautiful!
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Thanks for stopping by, Mama Zen. š
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wow, such wonderful butterflies. We don“t have that kind of butterflies so it is a treat to see them.
Would you consider adding them to my meme NF Winged? http://nfmemes.blogspot.se/2012/09/nf-winged-57-silvertarna-arctic-tern.html
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Thanks for the visit, NFP. I’d love to add them, thanks for asking.
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I also learned something new – determining the sex of a butterfly! They are so pretty…
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Glad I could be of help, Dianna!
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So pretty – glad you could get some pictures. We got to see one on Sunday that was newly hatched. I’m not sure how many survived to become butterflies, although the robin left them alone after that first attack.
Nancy
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They are so “perfect” when they first emerge, Nancy, so clean and bright. Some of them do give off an offensive odor.
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Did you raise these butterflies in your kitchen? I didn’t know that was possible. So COOL! The female really is beautiful. I didn’t realize they got the pretty colors. Great pics š
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When the caterpillars get good-sized (last stage before chrysalis) I bring a few indoors, Robin. My niece teaches K-5, and ordered a kit online (Monarchs, I think) and her class watched the stages in the classroom. It may have to be ordered in the spring. I saw a Monarch one year with a little round tag on its wing. Had I been able to get close enough to see it, I could have searched the number online and learned where it had been released. Thanks!
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I loved hatching Monarch butterflies in my classroom when I taught kindergarten and first grade. The students couldn’t wait to see if any butterflies needed to be released each morning when they came into the classroom. Such an amazing process/miracle.
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It is amazing any time new life springs forth; the butterfly process blows me away.I’m glad you did that with your students, and I know they enjoyed that experience.
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I had no idea about the male and female markings. That is SO cool and they are BEAUTIFUL. So glad, he decided to fly. Something we can all learn from. š
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Yes, we can, Angelia.
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Beautiful and interesting
Patti. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you, and thanks for stopping by, Merle.
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This sounds like a very fun and interesting project. Thanks for sharing.
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Glad you stopped by, Christine. It is quite fun.
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those butterflies is really beautiful. I wish we had them.
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I can’t imagine not having butterflies. Thanks for stopping by. Your photography is fabulous.
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